[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 160 (Monday, August 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 56797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-17954]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 
CHIPS Statement of Interest Information Collection

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, during a 60-day comment 
period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.
    Title: CHIPS Statement of Interest Information Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 0693-0091.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular.
    Number of Respondents: 500.
    Average Hours per Response: .5 hrs. (30 mins.)
    Burden Hours: 250 hrs.
    Needs and Uses: Applicants must submit a statement of interest 
(SOI) via a form available at https://applications.chips.gov/ at least 
21 days before submission of a pre-application. The statement of 
interest enables the Department to gauge interest in the program and 
plan for pre-application or application review.
    Information to be collected includes:
    <bullet> Name of applicant organization and contact information.
    <bullet> Estimated date of submission of a pre-application.
    <bullet> Basic project information, which will be elicited through 
multiple-choice questions and specific fields in the statement of 
interest form, including nature of project and potential scope.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory to obtain or retain benefits.
    Legal Authority: CHIPS Act of 2022 (Division A of Pub. L. 117-167) 
(the Act).
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0693-0091.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-17954 Filed 8-18-23; 8:45 am]
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